CFP: [Ethnic] Turkish Literature and Film in a Global Context

Turkish Literature and Film in a Global Context: This is a call forcontributors for a panel being proposed for the 2009 Modern LanguageAssociation Convention in Philadelphia; I am also planning to put togetheran edited collection on the same topic, so any abstracts that are submittedfor the MLA panel will also be considered for the proposed volume. I aminterested in any proposals that approach the subject, dealing with textsold or new (from Ottoman literature to contemporary work) in any genre. Ofparticular interest would be topics related to questions such as the globalreception of texts and films; audiences inside and outside of Turkey(including Turkish diasporic audiences); translation (and mistranslation)and issues related to the international publishing industry; influences andcross-pollination, not just between Turkey and â€œthe West,â€ but also withother non-western and postcolonial texts; and questions related to who hasbeen left out of this global context: Turkish writers and artists whosework has not been translated and/or disseminated. Please send 500-wordabstracts via email by March 15, 2009 to Anthony Alessandrini attonyalessandrini_at_yahoo.com. Abstracts will be accepted in English andTurkish, and the hope is to publish the proposed edited collection in bothlanguages.